character - In Prometheus, is Meredith Vickers a human or android?

While I was watching Prometheus this weekend, I initially thought that Meredith Vickers was an android, like David. They never made it perfectly clear that she was or wasn't human. They did hint at both though.

1. Peter Weyland, the old trillionaire, did say that she was his daughter. He could have meant this figuratively though.




2. Janek, the captain of the Prometheus, asked Vickers for sex like he was asking an android for a glass of water. After she agreed without emotion, he sang "if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with" before he had sex with her (although they didn't show it). This suggested to me that he wasn't going to be with a human, but was going to love the android he was with.




3. The surgery pod wasn't designed for use by a woman. Why would a trillionaire who could afford to build a surgery pod not build one for use by his own daughter?




4. Vickers has a different last name than Weyland, which at least suggest that they are not natural father-daughter.

Answer

In my mind, it's likely that Vickers is an android.

• The first clue while watching the film was her quick recovery from cryosleep.


• Later she's called Weyland's daughter, but David was given the name Weyland "had initially reserved for his own human son".


• Vickers has the physical strength to easily push David around. In Alien, androids are depicted as being much stronger than humans, so this suggests Vickers is as strong as David, an android.


• David and Vickers were the only ones who knew that Weyland was on board, so Weyland trusted them both completely. We know why he trusted David, it doesn't seem outlandish that he trusted Vickers for the exact same reason.


• The med pod is in Vickers quarters but would be unable to properly perform surgery on her, given that it's set to male. If she were a human, it's possible that Weyland didn't care enough for Vickers to provide her with the medical capabilities that the med pod provided.

My own theory is that Vickers is a later model of android than David. David's (a male, mind you) a logical breakthrough who can imitate human emotions. Then for a later model, a female android is created who has actual emotions. This provides a sort of symbolical balance in Weyland's ultimate creation, artificial men and women. This also makes a nice biblical reference.